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Merz government cabinet seated around large oval table

In the Name of Democracy: How Germany Ended Up Funding Hate

Sabine Beppler-Spahl June 25, 2025

By bankrolling organizations that ordinary Germans would never voluntarily support, the state has created an artificial network of antisemitic quasi-lobbyists.

Karol Nawrocki, Alice Weidel, Nigel Farage

Smeared As ‘Far Right’? That Means You Must Be Doing Something Right

Mick Hume June 5, 2025

This is about more than words. The ‘far right’ slander is being used by the authorities to justify far-reaching attacks on democracy.

Friedrich Merz applauding after Ursula von der Leyen receives Charlemagne prize for uniting Europe

Merz Lectures on Democracy While Germany Muzzles It

Christina Holmgren-Larson May 29, 2025

Meanwhile, European countries sideline voters and jail citizens for online posts.

Jacek Saryusz-Wolski seen standing in EU Parliament holding papers

Centrist president would give Tusk “a Brussels-sanctioned license to dismantle democracy”—former MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski

Artur Ciechanowicz May 29, 2025

“Climate, migration, sovereignty, the rule of law, and national security are all on the ballot” in Sunday’s Polish presidential election.

Swiss Town Defies Political Class, Blocks Muslim Burial Plot

TEC News May 19, 2025

Weinfelden voters narrowly rejected a proposal to carve out a separate Muslim section in the town cemetery.

How Germany’s Bureaucratic War on AfD Destroys Democracy From Within

Sabine Beppler-Spahl May 7, 2025

The establishment’s authoritarian power plays are eroding the already low level of public trust.

Demonstrators waving French flags in support of Marine Le Pen after her conviction

From England to Romania, They Can’t Stop the People’s Revolt

Mick Hume May 5, 2025

It no longer seems crazy to suggest that Europe’s elites might be prepared to ‘save democracy’—from the people—by destroying it.

AfD Says Attack on Party “Clearly Politically Motivated”

Zolta Győri May 2, 2025

The co-chairs of the right-wing populist party pledged to fight the decision they regard as defamation.

European national flags in front of EU building Strasbourg

Nationalism Should No Longer Be a Dirty Word

Mick Hume April 24, 2025

It is time for us to take back the idea of patriotism from the elites, and to free national consciousness from all the negative labels they have attached to it.

Vienna: Muslim Children Have To Be Taught To Live in a Democracy

Zolta Győri April 15, 2025

“No one in Vienna should base their lifestyle on fundamentalist interpretations of religious texts that are hostile to women, minorities, the state, or democracy,” city councilor Bettina Emmerling said.

Tag: democracy

In the Name of Democracy: How Germany Ended Up Funding Hate

Smeared As ‘Far Right’? That Means You Must Be Doing Something Right

Merz Lectures on Democracy While Germany Muzzles It

Centrist president would give Tusk “a Brussels-sanctioned license to dismantle democracy”—former MEP Jacek Saryusz-Wolski

Swiss Town Defies Political Class, Blocks Muslim Burial Plot

How Germany’s Bureaucratic War on AfD Destroys Democracy From Within

From England to Romania, They Can’t Stop the People’s Revolt

AfD Says Attack on Party “Clearly Politically Motivated”

Nationalism Should No Longer Be a Dirty Word

Vienna: Muslim Children Have To Be Taught To Live in a Democracy

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